What are some reasons for the relatively low academic achievement levels of adolescents from low-SES households compared to those from middle- or high-SES households?
What will be an ideal response?
For one thing, adolescents living in poverty lack many of the advantages enjoyed by other adolescents. Their
nutrition and health may be less adequate. Living in crowded conditions and attending inadequate schools, they
may have few places to do homework. Their homes may lack the books and computers commonplace in more
economically advantaged households. Further, poor adolescents may lack self-efficacy, which is the learned
expectation that one is capable of carrying out a behavior or producing a desired outcome in a particular situation.
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Which of the following are the two general designs used by human development researchers?
a. experimental studies and quasi-experimental studies b. observational studies and self-report studies c. case studies and self-report studies d. correlational studies and experimental studies
Cognitive and behavioral efforts to reduce the distress produced by a stressful situation are called ____ coping
a. problem-focused b. emotion-focused c. proactive d. reactive
Professor Hancock is giving a lecture about peripheral vision. Which is the most likely to say?
A. It is very sensitive to detail. B. It is easier to recognize single objects in the periphery that are not surrounded by other objects. C. It is not very sensitive to light. D. It is most sensitive to color, which helps to differentiate multiple objects clearly.
The doctrine of specific nerve energies is closely related to which aspect of sensory
processing? a. Anatomical coding b. Temporal coding c. Just-noticable differences d. Signal detection e. Transduction